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Earliest Fire Use Pushed Back to 1.8 Million Years in South Africa

Earliest Fire Use Pushed Back to 1.8 Million Years in South Africa

The earliest controlled use of fire by human ancestors may date back 1.8 million years, according to a new study published in PLOS ONE. The researc...

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Jupiter's Gravity May Have Saved Earth's Life-Building Elements

Jupiter's Gravity May Have Saved Earth's Life-Building Elements

Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, may have played a crucial role in allowing life to emerge on Earth by acting as a gravitational ba...

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Mysterious Space Signal Decoded: The Rosetta Stone of Radio Transients

Mysterious Space Signal Decoded: The Rosetta Stone of Radio Transients

Astronomers have finally found a long-period radio transient that acts as a cosmic Rosetta Stone, unlocking the mystery of these enigmatic signals ...

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Solid Rocket Fuel Breakthrough: Scientists Finally Solve the Shutdown Problem

Solid Rocket Fuel Breakthrough: Scientists Finally Solve the Shutdown Problem

Solid rocket fuel has long been the workhorse of spaceflight, but its inability to stop and restart has been a persistent Achilles' heel. Now, a te...

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China's Tianwen-2 Mission to Reach Kamo'oalewa Asteroid

China's Tianwen-2 Mission to Reach Kamo'oalewa Asteroid

China's Tianwen-2 mission is about to reach Kamo'oalewa, a near-Earth asteroid that has puzzled scientists for years. The spacecraft, launched in M...

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Space Data Centers: Why They Make More Sense Than You Think

Space Data Centers: Why They Make More Sense Than You Think

Space data centers are often dismissed as a sci-fi fantasy, but a deeper look reveals they might actually make sense. Elon Musk and others are push...

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NASA Evacuation Alert on ISS: Astronauts Shelter in Crew Dragon

NASA Evacuation Alert on ISS: Astronauts Shelter in Crew Dragon

NASA issued an evacuation alert on the International Space Station (ISS) after an air leak in the Russian segment worsened, prompting astronauts to...

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James Webb Corrects Hubble's Exoplanet WASP-94A b Atmosphere Data

James Webb Corrects Hubble's Exoplanet WASP-94A b Atmosphere Data

The James Webb Space Telescope has resolved a long-standing mystery surrounding the exoplanet WASP-94A b, showing that earlier Hubble observations ...

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Massive Black Hole Weighs 6 Billion Suns, Study Finds

Massive Black Hole Weighs 6 Billion Suns, Study Finds

A massive black hole weighing 6 billion times the mass of the Sun has been measured for the first time by researchers at Carnegie Science in Califo...

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Supermassive Black Hole Awakens: First Ultraviolet, Then X-Rays

Supermassive Black Hole Awakens: First Ultraviolet, Then X-Rays

A supermassive black hole awakening has been observed in unprecedented detail, with astronomers capturing the sequence from ultraviolet spark to X-...

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NASA Budget Cuts Force New Horizons to Shut Two Instruments

NASA Budget Cuts Force New Horizons to Shut Two Instruments

NASA's budget cuts have forced the New Horizons mission to shut down two of its instruments in October because the space agency withheld $2 million from the probe's annual budget....

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Mars Missions May Break Astronauts' Hearts, Study Finds
Mars Missions May Break Astronauts' Hearts, Study Finds
A new NASA-funded study suggests that Mars missions could pose a serious threat to astronauts' heart health, specifically by inducing fibrosis around blood vessels. The research, which simulated the combined... Read more...
First Radio Waves Detected from an Exoplanet: What It Means
First Radio Waves Detected from an Exoplanet: What It Means
For the first time, astronomers have detected radio waves from an exoplanet—a gas giant called β Pictoris b located about 63 light-years from Earth. The discovery, made with the MeerKAT... Read more...
NASA Spots Giant Green Swirl Near New Zealand: It's Not Pollution
NASA Spots Giant Green Swirl Near New Zealand: It's Not Pollution
NASA has detected a giant green swirl from space near New Zealand, and it's neither pollution nor an image glitch. The stunning satellite image, captured on January 10, 2026, reveals... Read more...
Project Diana: The 1946 Moon Radar Signal That Launched the Space Race
Project Diana: The 1946 Moon Radar Signal That Launched the Space Race
In January 1946, the U.S. Army's Project Diana sent a radar signal to the Moon and received an echo 2.5 seconds later, marking the first human-made contact with another celestial... Read more...
NASA Teases SR-71 Blackbird Successor with Mysterious Shadow
NASA Teases SR-71 Blackbird Successor with Mysterious Shadow
NASA has teased the possibility of a successor to the legendary SR-71 Blackbird with a mysterious shadow shown by administrator Jared Isaacman at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles. The... Read more...
Anthropic's Claude AI Makes Novel Biology Discovery: What It Means
Anthropic's Claude AI Makes Novel Biology Discovery: What It Means
Anthropic's Claude AI has made a novel biology discovery, identifying a previously uncharacterized biological system in millions of DNA sequences. Dubbed ART (Array-associated Reverse Transcriptase), the system appears mainly in... Read more...
Mysterious Exoplanet GJ 3090 b Orbits Backwards and Defies Explanation
Mysterious Exoplanet GJ 3090 b Orbits Backwards and Defies Explanation
The exoplanet GJ 3090 b has left astronomers scratching their heads: it orbits its host star in the opposite direction, a retrograde motion that contradicts standard planet formation models. This... Read more...
Soviet Kola Superdeep Borehole: Why Drilling Stopped at 12,262 Meters
Soviet Kola Superdeep Borehole: Why Drilling Stopped at 12,262 Meters
The Soviet Kola Superdeep Borehole reached a depth of 12,262 meters in 1970, making it the deepest artificial point on Earth. But what stopped the drilling was neither the rock... Read more...
Ozone Layer Hole Is Closing: How Science and a Historic Treaty Saved Us
Ozone Layer Hole Is Closing: How Science and a Historic Treaty Saved Us
The ozone layer hole is closing, and the story behind this environmental victory is a testament to scientific research and international cooperation. For decades, humans used products that harmed the... Read more...
Scientists Turn Plastic Into Billions of Nanodiamonds Using Laser Shots
Scientists Turn Plastic Into Billions of Nanodiamonds Using Laser Shots
Scientists have successfully turned plastic into billions of nanodiamonds using powerful laser shots, a breakthrough that could revolutionize how these tiny particles are made. The research, conducted by a team... Read more...
Space Junk Solution: $200,000 Satellite Deposit Proposed by Scientists
Space Junk Solution: $200,000 Satellite Deposit Proposed by Scientists
Space junk solution: scientists propose a $200,000 deposit for satellite operators to ensure they deorbit their satellites and reduce orbital debris. The idea, from researchers at the University of Colorado... Read more...
Cosmic Shockwave Defies Known Rules: The Mystery Engine Behind
Cosmic Shockwave Defies Known Rules: The Mystery Engine Behind
A cosmic shockwave that defies known rules has been discovered emanating from a dead star 730 light-years away, leaving astronomers puzzled about the engine driving it. The unexpected finding challenges... Read more...

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